Author Bios

Dick Reid

Dick Reid of Eugene is a retired English teacher and chair of the Lane Community College arts division. He frequently visits Mexico and Guatemala to visit children he sponsors and to work on his Spanish. These photos with comments can be found on his Facebook page. He recommends a widely praised, book-length account of an actual border crossing attempted by 26 men in 2001 by Luis Alberto Urrea, The Devil’s Highway: A True Story (New York, Little, Brown and Company, 2004).